5.1.1    Authorizing Access to your Display

To authorize access to the display on your system using Host Manager, do the following:

• Start Host Manager on your system.

  See the online documentation for for instructions on starting Host Manager.

• Check whether or not the X Display Access Control check button is set.

  • If the check button is set, make sure that the Host in X Access List option for the remote system is set.

  • If the X Display Access Control check button is not set, access to your local display is enabled for all systems.

To authorize access to the display on your system from the command line, use the xhost command. For example, if the host name of the remote machine is host1, enter the following:

xhost +host1

See Also

• Section 5.1, Running Applications Across the Network

• Section 5.1.2, Running the Application Remotely